An artist and a historian talk trees: What they mean, and what it takes to get city-dwellers to see them clearly.

What’s lost when the value of city trees is reduced to the “environmental services” they provide?

This is what democracy looks like: not only public squares, but office buildings. In the Lower East Side, the Peace Pentagon was the source point for four decades of resistance.

Getting to the bottom of a mysterious streak of purple cropping up along Manhattan’s eastern edge.

Drinking water is all around us, but just out of reach. Can simple tweaks to the city’s emergency infrastructure radically expand access to this precious resource?

Density and displacement aren’t just problems for the living.

With simple phrases beamed in light, the Illuminator Collective appropriates buildings' exteriors to reveal the forces at work inside.

Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.

Nearly six years after Sandy flooded basements and uprooted trees, Red Hook Houses is still in recovery. But designers from KPF and OLIN see a future brighter than survival, when infrastructure combines with art and the landscape rises above the waterline.

People returning to city life after time in prison will soon be able to find help at some branch libraries. How can designers help librarians create life-saving connections?